GREAT LAKES REGIONAL COLLABORATION SETS PUBLIC MEETINGS ON STRATEGY
(but doesn't know yet where to send you in some cities)
The Great Lakes Regional Collaboration has announced the locations of
six public meetings to hear comments on its recently announced draft
strategy and to receive input on priority actions to restore the Great
Lakes. The Draft Strategy to Restore and Protect the Great Lakes was
released for a 60-day public comment period on July 7.
The strategy may be reviewed on the collaboration's Web site:
The scheduled meetings are:
July 28 -- Gary, Ind. -- Marquette Park Pavilion, 1 North Grand
Boulevard
Aug. 1 -- Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Valley State University Loosemore
Auditorium
Aug. 4 -- Superior, Wis. (location to be announced)
Aug. 18 -- Detroit, Mich. Cobo Hall, Room W262, Riverfront Entrance
Aug. 23 -- Cleveland, Ohio (location to be announced)
Aug. 30 -- Buffalo, N.Y. (location to be announced)
All of the meetings will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. local time.
Locations for each meeting will be posted on the collaboration's Web
site as they become final. Although each meeting will provide an opportunity for oral comments on the strategy, only written comments will be considered.
Written comments may be submitted in three ways:
1. Submitted in electronic form (diskette, CDROM) or hard-copy at one of
the public meetings,
2. Submitted online via the Web site at www.glrc.us,
or
3. Mailed to:
Comments Great Lakes Regional Collaboration
c/o U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Great Lakes National Program Office
77 W. Jackson Blvd. (G-17J)
Chicago, IL 60604-3511
The deadline for comments is Sept. 9, 2005.
For more information contact:
Nancy Guiden, EPA, at (312) 353-5006, guiden.nancy@epa.gov or
David Ullrich, Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, Northeast
Midwest Institute, at (312) 201-4516, david.ullrich@nemw.org